Bark Beetle Infestation Spurs Multifaceted Study
...ers were large numbers of Chinese laborers. "The archaeologists don't want to disturb the archaeological sitesor destroy the tree stumps which can give them information about dates,"says Taylor. "I'm looking at the tree stumps to try to reconstructthe forest structure before lumbering, the history of fire in the ...Colorado State Anthropologist Finds Fossil Treasures In Africa
...t has not been amajor focus for anthropologists or archaeologists in recent years. Although there are numerous sites containing stone tools inBotswana, the only human or primate remains from Botswana are less than 10,000 years old and are fully modern. Other fossils foundin Botswana have been from the Middle Stone ...Secrets Of The S.O.S Repair Service
...le in proper alignment. Similar o the way in which archaeologists fashion clay to fill the gaps between shards of an ancient pot, this "spacer" prevents the damaged genetic letters from being deleted and keeps the overall DNA structure intact. The S.O.S. repair does not just prevent a genetic catastrophe, it actua...Evidence For Earliest Maritime-Based Societies In The Americas Reported In Science Magazine
...ng the Americas between18,000 and 5,000 years ago, archaeologists have found little evidence of how theearliest people in South America (or elsewhere in the Americas) adapted toliving along the shore. The findings from the two sites, named Quebrada Jaguayand Quebrada Tacahuay, suggest that the people who dwelled th...Amid Albanian Turmoil, Archaeologists Unearth Secrets Of The Stone Age
... team led by University of Cincinnati and Albanian archaeologists launched a field study about 60 miles south of Tir...ar less expensive than excavation, a survey allows archaeologists to gain an understanding of a larger region over a vast span of time. The Davis/Korkuti team covered...Intriguing archaeological sites, isolated lake targets of Kuril Expedition
...location. On Chirpoi, in the central Kurils, the archaeologists will focus on depressions left by approximately 40 pit houses in an area where hunter-gatherer implements have been dated back 3,000 to 4,000 years. Throughout the chain, geoarchaeologists will seek preserved landforms that could hold archaeological...Vanderbilt archaeological team unearths buried Maya royal palace
...am unearths buried Maya royal palace A team of archaeologists from the United States and Guatemala has determine...bilt University. Cancuén was first visited by archaeologists in 1905, but they characterized it as a minor center; the expedition went within 100 meters of the p...Genetics sheds light on origins of farming
...1/6068.00.html Traditionally, both biologists and archaeologists have studied the origins and evolution of crop plants with very little interaction between the two disciplines. In recent years, however, the two fields have been going through something of a "rapprochement" as they pursue greater interaction, says G...African bone tool discovery has important implications for evolution of human behavior
...in human tool technology and is considered by many archaeologists to be a key indicator of "behavioral modernity" in... in Africa and has a much longer history than most archaeologists believe. "The real implications are that there was modern human behavior in Africa about 35,000 yea...Is the evidence for human 'replacement' really clear?
...on in fairly short order. Paleoanthropologists and archaeologists cite a shift in the fossil evidence and the sudden...uman species or subspecies. Clark notes that many archaeologists and paleoanthropologists dont seem to recognize that the lack of a strong record of a behavior does...Ethiopian fossil skull indicates Homo erectus was single, widespread species 1 million years ago
... scientists who discovered the skull in 1997. Some archaeologists and anthropologists have argued that African and European populations were a different species, Homo ergaster, distinct from the strictly Asian Homo erectus. It took University of California, Berkeley, researchers and their colleagues more than two y...Chimpanzee stone tool site excavated
...inforest has been a place traditionally avoided by archaeologists because of, among other reasons, the cumbersome lo...rs, with well defined edges, closely resemble what archaeologists understand as "activity areas". The unearthed materials include more than 4 kilograms of stone piece...First primate archaeological dig uncovers new tool development links
...hip (IGERT) program, said the discovery could help archaeologists establish new dates for tool development. She and Christophe Boesch of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology co-authored the paper with Mercader. We know that flaked stone tools were used 2.5 million years ago, but stone tools may ...Archaeological journey reveals new information on chimpanzee stone tool technology
... use, even if we don't have the tools." Until now, archaeologists have focused on buried cultural remains left behind by our ancestors, but with the excavation of the chimpanzee stone tool site, scientists now know that humans are not the only animals whose behavior creates archaeological sites. This discovery ope...Muddy Mayan mystery made clearer by researchers working in the bajos
...ya cities were overgrown by tropical forests until archaeologists began to rediscover them in the mid-19th century. Many of the early centers were located near "bajos" - large depressions in the limestone bedrock. This presents another riddle that has "bugged scholars in the Maya area for years," Dunning says. Why...... opaline phytoliths in soil and plant remains tell archaeologists which plants were present thousands of years ago. ...ics determined by a single genetic locus will help archaeologists to determine whether plants in ancient samples were domesticated or wild varieties....Overlapping genetic and archaeological evidence suggests neolithic migration
...of artifacts. King and Underhill hope that archaeologists will follow them in trying to blend these two lines of historical evidence. They are continuing to gather genetic data from areas in Greece near Neolithic archaeological sites and in western Turkey, which researchers believe to be the jumping-off poi...Hebrew University excavations strengthen dating of archaeological findings to David, Solomon
... significance in view of the debate existing among archaeologists as to the authenticity of the biblical account of the two kings and the period and extent of their reign. The late, famed Hebrew University archaeologist Prof.Yigael Yadin argued more than 40 years ago that a series of monumental structures and part...Science picks-leads, feeds and story seeds (May 2003)
...Their Enshrined Environment - USGS scientists and archaeologists from the National Park Service are developing ways to evaluate the effect of seawater on the structural integrity of the USS Arizona, sunk Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and rests today in about 40 feet of water. Visitors to the battleship...Archaeologists announce discoveries at the ancient Maya site of Waka' in northern Guatemala
... by a team of 20 Guatemalan, American and Canadian archaeologists under the direction of Freidel and Escobedo.The si...ays. Under the consecutive direction of Guatemalan archaeologists Juan Carlos Prez (2003) and Horacio Martnez (2004), a team of masons has worked to consolidate this ...